| bus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: heap, jalopy |
| (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: busbar |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar | Synonyms: bus topology |
| busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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| busboy | (noun) a restaurant attendant who sets tables and assists waiters and clears away dirty dishes | Synonyms: waiter's assistant |
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| busby | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: bearskin, shako |
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| bush | (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
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| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
| (noun) a large wilderness area | - |
| (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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| bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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| bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| business | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation |
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| (noun) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
| (noun) the volume of commercial activity | - |
| (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: byplay, stage business |
| (noun) an immediate objective | - |
| (noun) a rightful concern or responsibility | - |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern |
| (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: clientele, patronage |
| (noun) business concerns collectively | Synonyms: business sector |
| businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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| businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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| businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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| busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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| buskin | (noun) a boot reaching halfway up to the knee | Synonyms: combat boot, desert boot, half boot, top boot |
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| busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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| busman | (noun) someone who drives a bus | Synonyms: bus driver |
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| buspirone | (noun) a drug (trade name BuSpar) designed specifically for anxiety | Synonyms: BuSpar |
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| buss | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: kiss, osculation |
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| bust | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, tear |
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| (noun) a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | - |
| (noun) the chest of a woman | Synonyms: female chest |
| (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: fizzle, flop |
| bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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| buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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| (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
| (noun) a robust child | - |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
| (noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| bustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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| (noun) a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt | - |
| busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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| busyness | (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: hum |
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| busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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